Graphic designer
Korean American graphic designer HeeJae Kim’s portfolio is one full of colour and personality. While some familiar elements do appear across his designs, HeeJae’s work is always underpinned by an attitude towards graphic design that sees typographic elements handled in an illustrative manner, a fact that’s inspired by his initial studies in illustration.HeeJae studied illustration at RISD but “the entire experience was a slow realis ation Illustration wasn’t right for me," he tells us. During his senior year, he experienced a crisis, feeling lost so close to graduation. “A couple of friends in graphic design encouraged me to take a typography elective for Winter session. This was a key moment.” Here, he was introduced to the principles of graphic design, understanding composition in a way he previously hadn’t.
Read MoreArt concept of motion
Traversing art, design and technology, the artist duo known as Humans since 1982 is in fact, founded by two artists born in the year of 1982. Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson met as postgraduate students at HDK Göteborg. Upon realising a shared curiosity to make sense of the world through art and design, the pair began collaborating; creating an array of hypnotising and experiential installations which combines engineering with playfulness and meticulous process.
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Animation
“In actuality, the film started out as a silly joke,” says Hamburg-based animator Jon Frickey about his sweet and dryly funny animated short Cat Days, which follows a father as he discovers that his visibly human son is actually a cat.
Photography
London-based photographer Romany Francesca is keenly aware of the identity politics at play in portrait photography. In her words: “As a society, unknowingly sometimes, we rely on portraiture to inspire our choices and direction as people.”
The Art of Music Mixing in the Studio
The music mixing stage is an exciting part of the studio production process. It can be started at any time, but usually happens once everything has been recorded or programmed into your DAW.Mixing is where you bring all the individual parts together and mix music.
